Thanks to all that replied,
it turns out that the great delay was due to the use of the "like"
opperator,
I did have an index on person_id + session_start, just a thought though,
using this will mysql pull out data ordered as per the index?
Yes, sql is VERY limited, thanks for the pointers.
Merr
Rob,
First of all I would say, your query is pretty badly laid out. First,
unless you need every fields from a table returned only ask for those
specific fields, and do you have an index on the combination of person_id +
session_start? If not, your query will always be slow.
But this is how I wo
Hi Rob!
Am Don, 2004-12-23 um 18.54 schrieb Rob Keeling:
> I have a 152MB MyISAM table that I am trying to execute a simple select
> statement on,
> I need to retreave all rows with a given index, sorted by date.
>
> This is taking a very long period of time to execute.
Can you give the time
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> Rob,
> Have you run "show full processlist;" to see if it is copying to a tmp
> table ??
>
> walt
Nothing listed other than the query itself. Should have said its on Mysql
3.21.
Rob Keeling
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Rob Keeling wrote:
I have a 152MB MyISAM table that I am trying to execute a simple select
statement on,
I need to retreave all rows with a given index, sorted by date.
This is taking a very long period of time to execute.
What can I do to speed up the query.
The sql is,
SELECT * FROM table WHERE
